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The movie is people being mean to each other combined with feel-good clichés. It oscillates wildly between "wow, look at this sappy wedding-adjacent event I've seen in a hundred other movies" and "wow, look at these previously-rational people doing things that would get them sent to real-life jail."

It takes twenty minutes to get to the premise that you already know from the tagline on the poster, and Will Ferrell's comedy doesn't play well with the times people attempt to act like normal non-demented comedy characters.

All that and ugly colour grading that makes everyone look half dead. Skip it.

This movie felt like a touching tribute to Chadwick Boseman and a *stellar* performance from Angela Bassett bolted to an absolutely paint-by-numbers Marvel movie.

The villain was boring. Many of the stunt sequences could have been completely reused from other movies but with new CG body doubles dropped on top, and the entire thing is held back by Disney's need to make the movie as bland and palatable to a wide audience as possible. The fight scenes felt like they wanted to show death and destruction, but wouldn't show anyone so much as getting a cut - it was extremely jarring to see a bloodless battle between dozens of people in two armies using entirely melee weaponry.

The new protagonists were clearly an attempt at setting up new television series or further movies, and simultaneously a way to get an Iron Man-type and a Black Panther-type character back into the MCU. It gets boring when the current thing is mostly about the next thing instead of attempting to be good on its own.

It's a clever short story - maybe one third of an episode - padded out to the full runtime by showing us gobs of barely-relevant clips. Should've just skipped this one, guys.